X3 on 1.6b without another modded box to flash with?
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I have an 1.6b box, and i have flash my bios with another xbox with 1.6 version. Work fine !! If someone here need to do this too, if you live in Canada/Montreal, pm me! Will help you!
I sure am glad I spent $65 on a chip I can't use. Its nice to know all the bugs were worked out while we waited a year for the chip to be released.
Guys, there are tutorials all over about how to use the UXE hack. Xbox-scene has quite a few on their tutorials page and also in the forums. Also, if you already have the necessary files, they come with a readme. I had never modded an Xbox, and I figured it out. It took a while of reading, but the concept really is pretty simple.
1. Get Winhex or another tool that can back up a hard drive sector-by-sector. Make a backup.
2. Hot-swap your Xbox hard-drive into your computer. Again, tons of tutorials already cover this.
3. Get yourself an Xbox hard-drive editor and copy the files from the UXE hack.
4. Use evox to flash your chip.
There are a lot of small details to fill in, but those are the basics. I plan on writing a complete tutorial w/pics but I've been way too busy the last week. Check back later.
1. Get Winhex or another tool that can back up a hard drive sector-by-sector. Make a backup.
2. Hot-swap your Xbox hard-drive into your computer. Again, tons of tutorials already cover this.
3. Get yourself an Xbox hard-drive editor and copy the files from the UXE hack.
4. Use evox to flash your chip.
There are a lot of small details to fill in, but those are the basics. I plan on writing a complete tutorial w/pics but I've been way too busy the last week. Check back later.
Here's a couple of newbie questions,
I also have a 1.6b and a X3 with incompatible firmware.
When you say hot swap HD, do you mean boot xbox with orig hd then swap hd for one setup using xboxhdm?
How did you retreive the hd password?
Every tutorial I've read says I needs a copy of eeprom.bin but how can I get access to it?
How did you get the font hack onto the new drive if it's fatx and not accessible?
Sorry, that's more than a couple....lol
Thanks in advance
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I also have a 1.6b and a X3 with incompatible firmware.
When you say hot swap HD, do you mean boot xbox with orig hd then swap hd for one setup using xboxhdm?
How did you retreive the hd password?
Every tutorial I've read says I needs a copy of eeprom.bin but how can I get access to it?
How did you get the font hack onto the new drive if it's fatx and not accessible?
Sorry, that's more than a couple....lol
Thanks in advance
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Hey,
I successfully did the softmod with the xboxhdm + evox package. Hotswapping is having both the PC and xbox close and right before the microsoft logo comes up under the large X switch the hard drive from xbox to primary master on PC really quickly, and it should be unlocked. You don't NEED the eeprom.bin, I didn't know where to get it either and I was just fine without it..but that does mean I have no backups. You put all the stuff in the right places and and make an iso with the tool that comes with the xboxhdm package, and burn it onto a cd and burn from it. You can find a tutorial on the procedures somewhere on the forum. Hope I helped.
I successfully did the softmod with the xboxhdm + evox package. Hotswapping is having both the PC and xbox close and right before the microsoft logo comes up under the large X switch the hard drive from xbox to primary master on PC really quickly, and it should be unlocked. You don't NEED the eeprom.bin, I didn't know where to get it either and I was just fine without it..but that does mean I have no backups. You put all the stuff in the right places and and make an iso with the tool that comes with the xboxhdm package, and burn it onto a cd and burn from it. You can find a tutorial on the procedures somewhere on the forum. Hope I helped.
How come you guys just don't send it to someone to update it or send it back to the reseller for upgrading, bc xecuter said that they have to reflash it for you.
Hmm..I'm experiencing an odd problem with evox...I go to flash it and everything is working but it's stuck at "erasing..."
Success! I have used this guy's method and it worked for me. My problem was that I started with the mod chip already in so it went over 01AD to 0900. But doing it again now it worked perfectly and flash bios 3.0.3 is running. Thanks for the great guide!
It really isn't that difficult. What I used was the UDE + xboxhdm package. Use the search to find it and just download both xboxhdm and UDE and put the UDE folder in the root directory (/linux). Use the make-iso-win.bat utility to make an iso then burn it onto a cd. Look on www.xbox-scene.com for a tutorial on hotswapping.
Hotswap the xbox hd into the PC (make sure you've enabled booting from CD first - a reset means you will have to do the hotswap again) Just press enter when linuxhdm boots and when you get to the prompt type UDE -UDE2. Everything should install and from there just close everything and put the xbox hd back into the xbox.
Don't worry if you get service error 12 (I did), just reset it a few times until evox comes up. If it doesn't, try putting a cd in and then loading from HD again. If this doesn't work, then I suggest you mess around with linuxhdm and formatting the HD and trying again..look on the forums for linuxhdm for help. In the end everything -should- work. If it doesn't, you can try slayers and using it to reload your HD back to normal (I haven't tried this yet, but supposedly it works. It's my next step because while experimenting I did format first and couldn't back up the original dashboard.)
Once evox comes up, you can just follow what sveetsnelda said. If your evox doesn't have Flash BIOS in the system utils menu, download the version off of the usual place and use that evox.ini. The next thing you need to do is add the Flash = 0x01AD,"X-ecuter 3",0x100000 line with the other ones into evox.ini and then finally transfer it over. (Everything is based in the "fonts" folder in the C partition, so don't bother putting it in just C - put it in fonts) Stick the bios files in C:\fonts\bios and they should come up. The next step I had little trouble with, though my xbox DID go crazy twice, shutting off and on until I plugged the power out. If this happens, don't worry, just leave the power off for a tiny bit and plug it back in and everything should work correctly.
Now you need to start up the xbox without the chip in and wait for Evox to load. Now, CAREFULLY plug the chip in. Make sure that your switch is set to "on on off off" Go to system utils - > Flash BIOS and select the 16plus bios. If the codes that come up are 01AD, you did everything right. Press Y to flash, start up the xbox with the chip on, and the x3 bios should come up. Have fun with your now working X3
Hotswap the xbox hd into the PC (make sure you've enabled booting from CD first - a reset means you will have to do the hotswap again) Just press enter when linuxhdm boots and when you get to the prompt type UDE -UDE2. Everything should install and from there just close everything and put the xbox hd back into the xbox.
Don't worry if you get service error 12 (I did), just reset it a few times until evox comes up. If it doesn't, try putting a cd in and then loading from HD again. If this doesn't work, then I suggest you mess around with linuxhdm and formatting the HD and trying again..look on the forums for linuxhdm for help. In the end everything -should- work. If it doesn't, you can try slayers and using it to reload your HD back to normal (I haven't tried this yet, but supposedly it works. It's my next step because while experimenting I did format first and couldn't back up the original dashboard.)
Once evox comes up, you can just follow what sveetsnelda said. If your evox doesn't have Flash BIOS in the system utils menu, download the version off of the usual place and use that evox.ini. The next thing you need to do is add the Flash = 0x01AD,"X-ecuter 3",0x100000 line with the other ones into evox.ini and then finally transfer it over. (Everything is based in the "fonts" folder in the C partition, so don't bother putting it in just C - put it in fonts) Stick the bios files in C:\fonts\bios and they should come up. The next step I had little trouble with, though my xbox DID go crazy twice, shutting off and on until I plugged the power out. If this happens, don't worry, just leave the power off for a tiny bit and plug it back in and everything should work correctly.
Now you need to start up the xbox without the chip in and wait for Evox to load. Now, CAREFULLY plug the chip in. Make sure that your switch is set to "on on off off" Go to system utils - > Flash BIOS and select the 16plus bios. If the codes that come up are 01AD, you did everything right. Press Y to flash, start up the xbox with the chip on, and the x3 bios should come up. Have fun with your now working X3
CPU key retrieval question
okay so i have a xenon mobo with the RROD and cannot be fixed, however it is not banned.
i also have a jasper that is fully functional, but is banned on live.
my question is, would i be able to take the nand from the xenon, put it on the jasper, install xell, and get the cpu key from it so i could get the good keyvault off and put it on the jaspers nand?
hope thats not too confusing lol
okay so i have a xenon mobo with the RROD and cannot be fixed, however it is not banned.
i also have a jasper that is fully functional, but is banned on live.
my question is, would i be able to take the nand from the xenon, put it on the jasper, install xell, and get the cpu key from it so i could get the good keyvault off and put it on the jaspers nand?
hope thats not too confusing lol
Re: CPU key retrieval question
Whoa... are you talking about physically taking the NAND chip off the Xenon motherboard and installing it on the Jasper? Or just dumping the Xenon, dropping the bins on the Jasper, and proceeding with Xell as normal?
Either way, very seriously doubt it will work.
Even if it did work, seems you would just get banned again for JTAGing the Jasper. Unless you were planning on reversing the JTAG on the Jasper once you got the key, but that seems like a terrible waste of a JTAGed mobo.
If the goal is just to get back on Live for free or cheap, ya might look on Craigslist for a non-banned RRoD that can be fixed... or something...
You might even be able to sell the banned, JTAGable mobo for around the same price as a non-banned RRoD mobo...
Just tossing out ideas. Good Luck!
Whoa... are you talking about physically taking the NAND chip off the Xenon motherboard and installing it on the Jasper? Or just dumping the Xenon, dropping the bins on the Jasper, and proceeding with Xell as normal?
Either way, very seriously doubt it will work.
Even if it did work, seems you would just get banned again for JTAGing the Jasper. Unless you were planning on reversing the JTAG on the Jasper once you got the key, but that seems like a terrible waste of a JTAGed mobo.
If the goal is just to get back on Live for free or cheap, ya might look on Craigslist for a non-banned RRoD that can be fixed... or something...
You might even be able to sell the banned, JTAGable mobo for around the same price as a non-banned RRoD mobo...
Just tossing out ideas. Good Luck!